A husband and wife from Liaoning, China, found themselves in a puzzling situation when they had to piece together 140,000 yuan ($21,300) worth of banknotes that were shredded by the man's 85 year-old father.

This look like they get paper money destroyed because it is old. This is a common thing. In Brazil, they give a gift of old paper money in bags. This is better than burn it. But this china paper money is in big pieces. And they don't fit all the pieces... See, there are a paper with the print of the bank note and they put the paper money above it.

Anyway, the history look like to be true and they get the money back because the prove that the old man did it. http://www.cjlt.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=111803